LOUISVILLE, Colo. — (BUSINESS WIRE) — November 12, 2014 —
The
Design Automation Conference (DAC), the premier conference devoted
to the design and automation of electronic systems, is pleased to
announce the submission site for the
52nd
DAC Designer Track is now open. The Designer Track brings together
IC designers and embedded software developers from across the globe to
present their design experiences on effective design flows, methods, and
tool usage. The track offers a unique opportunity to network with and
learn from other industry experts. The 52nd DAC will be held
at the Moscone Convention Center in San Francisco, California, from June
7 - 11, 2015.

“The focus of the Designer Track is on the flows and methodologies
deployed for ASIC design, verification, implementation and software
integration by the user,” said Designer Track co-chairs Karam Chatha of
Qualcomm Research and Daniel Bourke of Cadence Design Systems. “This
track is the only one of its kind, developed exclusively by DAC to
provide EDA tool users, hardware designers, software engineers, and
application engineers the opportunity to share knowledge and experiences
with each other. The covered topics are at the interface between design
and automation, an area that until now has been under-represented in
EDA.”

Submissions
may describe the application of tools to the design of a novel
electronic system or the integration of EDA tools within a design flow
or methodology to produce such systems. A submission may be
problem-specific in scope (e.g., hardware/software-based architecture
exploration, analyzing substrate coupling during floorplanning) or may
address a specific application domain (e.g., designing wireless
handsets). The Designer Track differs from vendor-specific user forums
in that it is not tied to a specific EDA vendor.

Designer Track

Regular submissions will be accepted in the following categories:

1.

Front-end silicon design (FE): Front-end architecture,
design and verification of current day system-on-chip (SoC)
including major components such as CPU, GPU, and DSP. Front-end
design of entire SoC sub-systems such as graphics, multimedia and
modem.